7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Amber color. Dried fruit, gummybears and a hint of vanilla in the aroma. Malty sweet, dried fruit, remaining earthy hops. Vanilla, gummybears and bourbon in the flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2020
at 11:23
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Almost black. Roast, caramel and licorice in the aroma. Malty sweet flavor with roast, whisky and caramel. Has lost a little body from the barrel aging. Vanilla. Likeable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2020
at 20:11
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Small cream-pinkish head over hazy brownish orange beer. Oxydated hops, over caramel/waffle malts. Bitterish, old caramel syrup. Light, but certain oxydation, old rosewater (within BBd!). Quite slick, good carbonation. Oily, viscous feel. Gives the impression - certainly warming up - of a hopped strong liqueur. Thanks to Stef!
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2020
at 07:30
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Brown color. Vanilla, dried fruit and rum in the aroma. Some remaining earthy hops, but especially rum and dried fruit in the flavor. Fairly dry, alcoholic. Rum. Hopbitter finish. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Sep 2020
at 23:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Thick-set with medium height ochre-cream head over hazy, mossy-amber beer. Cacao, bark, fertilizer, wood strips. Bitterish, cacao, again dry wood. Quite slick, very dry MF; medium bodied at least. Weird beer! 3 classic C-hops and I can't spot one. The bitterness here is really as from cacaopowder. Thanks to Stef!
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2020
at 07:06
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Small creamy ring over virtually black beer. Peat, peated malt, Islay, mineral, and green leaves as fern or darker. Light chocolate, almost crisp flavour "despite" the Islay. Some coffee appearing and again dark green leaves. Very well-bodied, furious alcoholheat, long lasting roasted flavour. Very goode beer, much better than former Basement B.A. tasted. Thanks to Stef!
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2020
at 08:35
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Max's place. Thanks Stas. Black, tan foam. Lots of peated whiskey, chocolate, roast, soy sauce, sweetish and a bit umami, roast, alcohol. Too peated for my liking.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2020
at 18:53
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle sample at a tasting at Max's place. Thanks Stas. Slightly hazy amber. Malt, caramel, stale hops, wood, vanilla, whiskey, alcohol, sweet. Not my thing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2020
at 18:51
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Hazy amber colour with lasting head. Flavour has plenty of malt background and sweet vanilla from the wood. Rounded hop bitterness balances it out well.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2020
at 19:10
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Bottle at home. Dark amber red color, medium sized off-white head. Aroma is malts, raisins, wood. Flavor is malts, caramel-ish, raisins, liquor, wood, liquor bitterness. Although this one has turned out reasonably well, I've never understood why barrel aging an IPA would be a good idea. It just never makes the IPA better. Different? Yes. This one? Yeah turned out alright. Good, etter than it was before barrel aging? Highly doubt it.
Tried
on 25 Jun 2020
at 21:35